Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

--=,SpeedlNav_--:....- _ a en 9 <[ o ~ a u rJl >- '" a ... a O"l ..... :I: 0.. Ala n " C ra zy" Christian le a d s Ascot Scratch main winner Steve Lu c e ro at Costa Mesa. where Shawn McConnell was the vietor. Ascot South Bay Stadium winner Rich Sweaney leads Doug Nicol and Robert "Five Flavors" Pfetzing in the main event. Ott wins in Ventura before th e end of the first go-'round. Coming off turn four on lap two Christian ducked under Strornmer for th e lead. then opened it up. Faria flew through th e pack and took second from Strornmer on lap three. It looked as though Christi an was going to tak e th e win by a comfortable margin over Faria, but on th e last lap Faria began to close in. He got inside Christi an as th ey ca me off four a nd got th e drive.' They fla sh ed by th e J erry.King ch eckered Ilag side by sid e with Faria scoring th e exc iting win by a knob. Third spot went to " Kin g Kell y" Moran. R onnie Correy (T ic ke t Mani a / R ol and L amarche , In c.lWrighl Fram ers/Grin Products/Mom & Dad G odden ) sta rted up front a n d led th e entire di stance to ca p tu re hon ors in Secon d D ivi si on . Correy slig h tly bobbled o n lap two but he lost no ground a nd scored th e win by a lar ge margin o ver Don Butler. who finished seco nd for th e second stra ig h t night and David Hancock . Jorda n Duncan (ACR/STP/Mushroom Grips/Hi-Point/Z Leather s/ Bel l/Ski Works/Gum by & Pokey Godden) returned from the injury list a n d sco red th e win in a sa vage Third Division war. Valerie Robledo took seco nd with Dana Dumond third. Trinon Cirello (H a wa iia n Punch/ O akl e y/Bobby Schwartz/Cirello Racing ) took Junior Speedway Division One honors while Danny Wright (H ig h la n d Framers) took home th e bacon in Division Two . By Bill Locey VENTURA, CA, J UNE 4 On a night wh ere "The Long Beach Flu" accounted for a fair share of th e record 20 scratch es. "Showtime" Bob Ou not only showed u p , bUI a lso showed a lot of h is ha ck to th e o the r rid er s, winning th e Scra tch ma in and fin ishing seco nd in th e H andi cap main. Sh awn MeCo n ne ll look Handicap honors and his firs t Tuesday ni ght hardwa re since 1982. 011 battled Lucero wh eel-to-wheel for a lap, then got by a nd won hi s second Scratch main. Second Division rac ing wa s compressed to two hear s: Bobby T occo won o ne from th e 20 a nd rookie Jimmy Gentil e won th e other from th e zero. In th e m ain, it wa s Steve Flani gan taking h is fi rst Vent ura trophy. And Craig Furman. in hi s Ventura debut , won th e 0 -3 m a in o ff th e zero . Results SCRATCH MAIN: 1. Bob OtC 2. Steve Lucero; 3. Mike Mazzacane ; 4 . Rob Pfetz ing . HANDICAP: 1. Shawn McConnell; 2. Bob Ott; 3. St eve Lucero ; 4 . Rob Pfetz ing; 5 . Bill Gray; 6 . Ron · P resu ma bly for th e a p p roach ing ni e Corrye y_ SECOND DIV: 1. Steve Flaniga n; 2. Bobby Tocco; America n Speed way Final. six o f th e 3. Anthony Sanchez; 4 . Greg Nelson; 5. Ma rk eig h t 50-yar d- li ne rid ers didn 't show Hate ly; 6. Jimmy Genti le. THIRDOIV: 1. Cra ig Fum a n; 2 . St e ve Donova n; 3 . up lO rid e. Wh al a ll th is meant to th e John Edwards: 4 . Ken Berr y. 5. Randy Skinner ; 6. fan s was a lot o f crossi ng-a u I o f Jay Skil es . nam es in th e p rogram as man y ride rs MATCH RACE: 1. Dav id Han cock de l . W alt Farn um . were p ro moted from Third to Seco n d and from Seco n d to First Divi sion . T he upsh ot OUI of all thi s is th at th e sm a lles t rid er in speed wa y, Ronnie Corrcv. will stay in First Divi sion. He nOI o n ly won his first two rid es, but would 've won th e main if he hadn't looped it a t th e wrong tim e. By Scott Daloisio The Handi cap heats. run with five, COSTA MESA, CA , J UNE 7 were suffi cientl y th rilli ng as 011 won Sha wn McCon nell pu thi s h is from th e back with a flurry o f W eslake into the Orange wh eeli es, Roh Pfetzing la st turned County Fairgrounds victory h is pal McConnell for a win , and Ed Ca str o won from th e 40. circle for the second time in as In Ih e m a in , Co rrey led for two m an y week s wh en h e held o ff th e laps th en fell. Bill G ra y, wh o transdet ermined ch arges o f Alan ChrisIered for th e fourth straigh t week , tian to win th e Scratch ma in even t la id it down to avoid Correy. On th e Friday even ing. McConnell (Bell/ Petroche m/ STP/ resta rt . Mr Con ne ll flew by G r.ly o n Terry Cable/Team Swo len / Oakley/ th e firs t lap, a nd never looked back . Since there were n in e scra tches in F.O.M . Weslake) h ad o n ly recorded a th e Scra tch port io n o f th e p ro gram , pair o f seco nds in th e Scrat ch perlirnjoh opport u nities opened for so me m aries but put it a ll toget he r in leadin g th e entire d istance in th e unfa mi liar fa ces: Joe Kreisberg , Vic Robledo , Walt Farnum, J eff J ones, four-lap main. Ch rist ian ga ve h im Don Butl er and G ra y. Most of th em immediate chase in th e main a nd tried everythi ng looking for th e holes got blown o u t in th eir heat races . 011 wo n his semi with wh eelit'S to th at n ever carne . McConnell , who is spare a nd Mike Mazzaran e passed o ne of th e most an im at ed rid ers on Mr Cone ll to qualify for hi s fir st th e ci rcu it, got a fin e hand from th e Scratch m ain a t Ventura this yea r. crowd for h is effortas hecrosst'

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